Obviously I'm not a direct descendant of the headless Anne Bolyn, but her aunt of the same name is in my line. (If the records on ancestry.com are to be believed).
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My step family claims Robert E. Lee.

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(05-08-2014 04:55 AM)Brian37 Wrote: My Uncle who died in .88 used to pilot for Pan Am also prior flew for Air Force 2. He is in the background in the famous photo where Jackie O is standing next to LBJ being sworn in.

cool! My grandfather, whom I adored, worked his way up from working in the mail room at Pan Am, to regional manager 30 years later, he retired from Pan Am when it was the aviation place to be. Sadly they went bankrupt years later and he lost the vast majority of his retainer due to he had everything through Pan Am, retirement, stocks etc...3 months later he was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and dug pretty hard into his savings to pay for the treatments out of pocket. Miss him

(05-08-2014 05:17 AM)DLJ Wrote: My dad killed Glenn Miller.

Does that count?

Did he build the carburetor for the plane?

(05-08-2014 06:17 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I don't know of a single famous or even remotely noteworthy person in my family tree... As far as I know, my family tree is as boring as I am.

My father has in the past claimed that I had some relation to somebody (eternally unnamed) who worked on the Manhattan Project, but I've never seen the claim substantiated.

I know who it is...YOU! you're that Atheist guy on TTA! You are the famous one

Obviously I'm not a direct descendant of the headless Anne Bolyn, but her aunt of the same name is in my line. (If the records on ancestry.com are to be believed).
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My step family claims Robert E. Lee.

Buddy Holly would be cool, Anne Bolyn is a really interesting back story for the family I bet, and I think every southern family claims a link to Robert E Lee Not that I am discounting your step family's claim on any level hehe

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(04-08-2014 07:08 PM)goodwithoutgod Wrote: So, do any of you have a cool member of the family tree somewhere? I thought this could be a neat thread....anyone kin to the jesse james gang members, or william shakespeare, or.......

come on...share

Shakespeare has no living descendents; his grandchildren died childless.

well, now I feel dumb

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(05-08-2014 06:17 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I don't know of a single famous or even remotely noteworthy person in my family tree... As far as I know, my family tree is as boring as I am.

My father has in the past claimed that I had some relation to somebody (eternally unnamed) who worked on the Manhattan Project, but I've never seen the claim substantiated.

You're just not going back far enough. You're Australian, and I don't recall your particular background so I'll assume you're probably mostly of British ancestry. Literally everyone British is related to royalty given enough generations.

It's the magic of statistics!

Far as I know, most of my ancestors were British, with some French and German in the mix if tales are to be believed.

That being said; the idea of me having a relation to a royal is nothing but disheartening...

(05-08-2014 11:30 AM)goodwithoutgod Wrote:

(05-08-2014 06:17 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I don't know of a single famous or even remotely noteworthy person in my family tree... As far as I know, my family tree is as boring as I am.

My father has in the past claimed that I had some relation to somebody (eternally unnamed) who worked on the Manhattan Project, but I've never seen the claim substantiated.

I know who it is...YOU! you're that Atheist guy on TTA! You are the famous one

I think there is a bit of a difference between being famous and just being consistently around enough to gain minor notice.

If I was famous anywhere, it'd be at school for being a renowned PE bludger.

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